Missouri Valley Conference men's and women's basketball teams have played 289 NCAA Tournament games in our history. League basketball teams have combined for 20 NCAA Final Four appearances and four NCAA national titles.
Do you have a list of your all-time favorite MVC contests in the NCAA Tournament? We do. During March, we've unveiled our most notable men's and women's NCAA Tournament games, by round.
Fans have voted for their favorite MVC moments exclusively on the @ValleyHoops Twitter account. Voting has taken place on corresponding dates of this year's scheduled NCAA Tournament games. Women's tournament moments are brought to you by Grinnell Mutual Insurance. The men's basketball moments are brought to you by Enterprise Rent a Car.
Voting continues on Saturday, April 4, as the top MVC Final Four moments will be released on Twitter for fan voting. Results of first-round, second-round and regional-round voting for both men's and women's basketball are below.
MEN'S BASKETBALL
FIRST ROUND - TOP 5 (Selections 2-5 ordered by date)
2016 – UNI knocks off No. 6-seeded Texas on a half-court shot at the buzzer by Paul Jesperson (top vote-getter)
2001 - Indiana State defeats No. 4 seed Oklahoma, 70-68, in overtime
2002 – Southern Illinois, seeded 11, beats Texas Tech and Bobby Knight, 76-68, in Chicago
2006 – Bradley, seeded No. 13, topples Kansas 77-73 in the first round
2018 – Loyola’s Donte Ingram hits a buzzer-beater to knock off Miami in the first round
FIRST ROUND -- OTHERS CONSIDERED
1994 – Tulsa knocks off UCLA, 115-102 in the first round in a 5-12 matchup
1999 – Missouri State, seeded 12, beats Wisconsin, 43-32.
2002 – Creighton knocks off No. 5 Florida, in double overtime
SECOND ROUND - TOP 6 (Selections 2-6 ordered by date)
2010 – UNI beat No. 1 overall seed Kansas to advance to the Sweet 16 (top vote-getter)
1999 – Missouri State pounds No. 4 seed Tennessee, 81-51, to reach the Sweet 16
2002 – Southern Illinois (11 seed) knocks off No. 3 seeded Georgia, 77-75
2013 – Wichita State beats No. 1 seeded Gonzaga en route to the Final Four that year
2015 – Wichita State knocks off No. 2 Kansas, 78-65 to advance to the Regionals
2018 – Loyola knocks off Tennessee, 63-62, on last-second shot by Clayton Custer
SECOND ROUND – OTHERS CONSIDERED
1994 – Tulsa slips by Oklahoma State, 82-80, but loses its next game to eventual national champ Arkansas
2006 – Wichita State, a No. 7 seed, knocks off second-seeded Tennessee to advance
REGIONAL ROUND (Selections 3-8 ordered by date)
2018 – Loyola blitzed Kansas State, 69-57, to reach the Final Four (top vote-getter)
1979 – Indiana State narrowly defeats Arkansas, 73-71, to reach the Final Four (runnerup in fan vote)
1950 – Bradley beats UCLA to reach the Final Four, 73-59. Braves finish as national runner-up
1969 – Drake reaches the Final Four after ousting Colorado State, 84-77
1981 – Wichita State defeats Kansas, 66-65, in the Battle for New Orleans
2007 – Southern Illinois fell to top-seeded Kansas, 61-58. The 2007 NCAA appearance was the 6th-straight for SIU
2013 – Wichita State held off Ohio State, 70-66, to reach the Final Four
2018 – Marques Townes hits a game-clinching shot in the closing seconds as Loyola reaches Elite 8
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
FIRST ROUND - TOP 5 (Selections 2-5 ordered by date)
2019 – No. 11 seed Missouri State beats No. 6 seed DePaul, 89-78 for first NCAA tourney win since Final Four run in 2001 (top vote-getter)
1989 – No. 7 seed Illinois State wins its only NCAA tournament game, beating Northwestern State, 100-79
1991 – No. 8 seed Missouri State beats No. 9 Tennessee Tech, 94-64, before losing to eventual national champion Tennessee in the second round
1992 – No. 10 Southern Illinois beats No. 7 Colorado, 84-80 (OT) and No. 8 Missouri State beats No. 9 Kansas, 75-59 as The Valley wins two first round games in the same season for the first time
2002 – No. 7 Drake beats No. 10 Syracuse, 87-69
FIRST ROUND – OTHERS CONSIDERED
1986 – No. 10 seed Drake beats No. 7 seed Kentucky, 73-70
1993 – No. 7 seed Missouri State beats No. 10 Oklahoma State 86-71 on the way to an eventual Sweet Sixteen
1995 – No. 5 Drake beats No. 12 Ole Miss, 87-81 (OT) and No. 9 Missouri State beats No. 8 Utah, 49-47 as The Valley wins two first round games in the same season for the second time
SECOND ROUND - TOP 5 (Selections 2-5 ordered by date)
2002 – No. 7 seed Drake beats No. 2 seed Baylor, 76-72 to reach Sweet 16 (top vote-getter)
1982 – No. 4 seed Drake beats No. 1 seed Long Beach State, 91-78
1987 – No. 5 seed Southern Illinois beats No. 4 seed LSU 70-56
1992 – No. 8 seed Missouri State beats No. 1 seed Iowa 61-60 in OT to continue on Cinderella run to the Lady Bears first Final Four
2019 – No. 11 seed Missouri State beats No. 3 Iowa State, 69-60, in Ames to reach the Sweet 16
SECOND ROUND – OTHERS CONSIDERED
1993 – No. 7 seed Missouri State beats No. 2 Maryland, 86-82 to reach second-straight Sweet 16
2001 – No. 5 seed Missouri State beats No. 4 seed Rutgers, 60-53, to reach third Sweet 16 in program history
REGIONAL ROUND - (Selections 2-7 ordered by date)
2001 - Missouri State beat No. 1 seed Duke 81-71, behind 41 points from Jackie Stiles, advancing to the NCAA West Regional Final in Spokane (top vote-getter)
1982 – No. 2 seed Maryland beats No. 4 Drake, 89-78 to end Bulldogs Final Four run
1987 – No. 1 seed Louisiana Tech beats No. 5 Southern Illinois, 66-53
1992 - Missouri State beat No. 5 seed UCLA 83-57 to advance to 1992 Midwest Regional Final
1992 – No. 8 Missouri State beats No. 2 seed Ole Miss, 94-71, to reach first Final Four
2001 – No. 5 Missouri State beats No. 6 Washington, 104-87, to reach second Final Four
2002 – No. 3 seed South Carolina beats No. 7 Drake, 79-65